Editing Stanley Baldwin (section)

===National Government and appointment===
{{further|National Government (1935–1937)}}
With MacDonald's health in decline, he and Baldwin changed places in June 1935: Baldwin was now prime minister, MacDonald Lord President of the council.<ref>Taylor, p. 378.</ref> In October that year, Baldwin called a [[1935 United Kingdom general election|general election]]. Neville Chamberlain advised Baldwin to make rearmament the leading issue in the election campaign against Labour and said that if a rearmament programme was not announced until after the election, his government would be seen as having deceived the people.<ref>Maurice Cowling, ''The Impact of Hitler. British Politics and British Policy, 1933–1940'' (Chicago University Press, 1977), p. 92.</ref> However, Baldwin did not make rearmament the central issue in the election. He said that he would support the League of Nations, modernise Britain's defences and remedy deficiencies, but he also said: "I give you my word that there will be no great armaments".<ref name="Taylor1">Taylor, p. 383.</ref> The main issues in the election were housing, unemployment and the special areas of economic depression.<ref name="Taylor1"/> The election gave 430 seats to National Government supporters (386 of these Conservative) and 154 seats to Labour.